FLO at Klang 2015

Preparing a collaborative music performance involving 3 co-located performers, 6 distributed performers and an AI agent mixing local and remote sound sources (sometimes delayed by up to 20.3 seconds) so the output can be spatialised over 8-channel speakers is no mean feat! Add to that: 'making friends' with a borrowed cello that has different acoustic …

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3, 4 …

Our performances at Klang Festival (Durham University Music Department, 5th June) and Sound Kitchen (PQ2015 24 June) are just around the corner so testing of remote set-ups, instrument pick-ups, Bitwig Studio plug-ins and SuperCollider patches is in full swing! The set-up with UltraGrid software is still a bit temperamental, probably due to all of us having different (older) versions of MacOS …

FLO launched at Music Tech Fest Paris, November 2014

Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO) project was officially launched on 22 November as part of Music Tech Fest Paris, taking place at Centre Pompidou, the home of IRCAM. Nela presented the project to an audience of musicians, coders, scientists and researchers inviting them to make suggestions for remote audio-visual systems FLO could be using to rehearse, compose and perform. …